After struggling with anxiety, depression, and weight gain in adolescence, in 2004 Josh let go of over 75 pounds and transformed his life by becoming a health and fitness professional that would coach over 12,000 sessions and evolve into one of the top wellness influencers on iTunes.

In this podcast together, we discover the connections between our emotions and healthy habits to live our best life and enjoy the process. Every week, you'll learn from exceptional people who have dedicated their lives to being a positive force for our global collective.

"Knowing without doing is the
same thing as not knowing. What matters is if the knowledge that
you have will give you an effective health practice for the long
term." - Dan Pardi

There is power in knowledge and with the right health and
wellness information, we can make the right decisions in accordance
with our own needs.

This week, entrepreneur, researcher, and developer of Loop Model
to Sustain Health Behaviors, Dan Pardi, explains Self
Determination Theory and motivation, the human connection, and his
latest project, humanOS to help us find the best health
information.

Find The Health You're Looking For

"You have more control over
your health than anyone else." - Dan Pardi

There are many sources out there that claim that they have the
answer to all of your health problems, but they truly don't. These
novelty, quick fix methods, products, and services may look
appealing, but they aren't sustainable for long-term health
results.

To find the best help for your health needs, you first have to
clarify your own health problems. Rather than trend hopping by
focusing on what you just read in the latest health magazine about
a new diet, research and find out for yourself what your body
needs.

It can be so confusing with so much information out there in
books, magazines, and the internet. However, sources like humansOS,
that Dan and his team are putting together, help us find the best,
most credible sources of information.

Truth vs. Fiction For Health Research

In a recent interview on humanOS radio with Dr. David
Katz of Yale, Dan mentioned:

“As well-intentioned as
someone might be, I frequently find myself getting
frustrated, not when somebody’s passionate and wrong about an
issue, but when people can be overly confident and dismissive
of mainstream medicine’s consensus in favor of their own
opinion which can often associate with their own financial
reward.”

Once you have a proper perspective and mindset, you make good
decisions for yourself. It's better late than never to embrace your
responsibility to find the best method and motivation for you stay
true to yourself and progress your health journey.

One challenge we all face today is the fight against the modern
lifestyle. We used to be hunters and gathers, but today we're
consuming high processed foods and sitting around too much at
home.

An unhealthy lifestyle doesn't only lead to chronic disease, but
can impair our daily performance and relationships as well.

All the technology in the world won't help you, but you can use
the power of technology to fight back against misinformed studies
to do your own research.

Begin Your Own Research

To ensure that you are finding the best information out there,
look closely at who this researcher is and what their study is all
about.

Who are they associated with?

Do they declare their method?

Do they offer a too good to be true solution?

If this source appears to provide a quick fix, be
careful.

OR

Do they have a realistic perspective?

Does their method clearly explain how it will help?

Is their research comprehensive?

Does their campaign have an overall, large
framework.

Once you've found a legitimate piece of information on health,
how can you incorporate it into your daily life?

Try to clarify the problem that you're trying to solve.

Find the right ideas that can help you.

Understand those ideas deeply.

Turn those into health and wellness skills.

Maintain those health skills for life with good
information.

Human Motivation

"Our job isn’t to motivate
other people, it’s about creating the condition in which people can
motivate themselves.” - Dan Pardi

Self Determination Theory - (SDT) is a theory
of motivation. It is concerned with supporting our natural or
intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways. SDT
has been researched and practiced by a network of researchers
around the world. The theory aims to understand motivation by
looking at the core categories of human needs:

Physical, which is things like thirst, and hunger, and
sex.

Psychological, which is the desire to be competent in anything
but particularly things that are important.

Autonomy, which speaks to the notion that we like to have
freedom to determine our own path.

Social needs, which is the sense of belonging to a group,
recognition from others, and even the sense of power in your own
life.

Controlled vs Autonomous Motivation

SDT is a behavior model that tries to understand what human
motivation is. Motivation has many different categories that can be
placed into two different groups: Controlled
Motivation and Autonomous Motivation.

Controlled Motivation

Controlled motivation is caused by external rewards such as a
prize for accomplishing a goal. But you can also be punished by
having something taken away from you if you don't complete the goal
or feel guilty for not accomplishing it.

Autonomous Motivation

Autonomous motivation is when a person is compelled to do
something because the activity takes on some personal importance or
it becomes a part of the person's belief system and it even becomes
part of the person's identity.

Your not motivated by external rewards, but you do something
because it's a part of your identity and who you are as a
person.

Dan gave a great example that someone who has controlled
motivation runs for the physical reward. However, a person who has
autonomous motivation will run in the rain despite all rational
thinking because exercise no matter what is part of who they
are.

Using humanOS to Your Advantage

As a mission, humanOS helps people master their
health.

Understanding that this is necessary is actually critical to
one's success of long-term help.

Why?

Because all the technology in the world won't be healthy for
you. The technology can't just be available, you have to pick it up
and use it and you have to use it the right way. HumanOS helps
you benefit from the worlds best health technology and health
information.

How to leverage different types of motivations for sustainable
health change

Learning for efficacy vs learning for recognition

How does something go from interesting idea that you
recognize to something that has a direct impact on your blood
work?

About Dan Pardi

Dan Pardi is an entrepreneur and researcher whose life’s work is
centered on how to facilitate health behaviors in others. He is the
developer of Loop Model to Sustain Health Behaviors to help people
live a healthy lifestyle in a modern world.

He does research with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department at Stanford, and the Departments of Neurology and
Endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Dan
specializes in building systems for health, behavior optimization
and habit building, energy homeostasis, cognition, decision making,
and physiology (sleep, exercise, and inactivity).

Dan also works with Naval Special Warfare to help the most elite
fighters in the world maintain vigilant performance in both combat
and non-combat conditions. Formerly, Dan served as Board Chairman
of the Investigator Initiated Sponsored Research Association, a
global non-profit aimed to promote best practices in the arena of
academic research grants.

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Wellness Force Radio | Discovering Physical & Emotional Intelligence To Help Men & Women Live Life Well.
Wellness Force Radio is a global collective dedicated to mastering physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. In this podcast together, we discover the connections between our emotions and healthy habits to live our best life and enjoy the process.
Your host, Josh Trent, spotlights ​world class experts in the fields of physical and emotional intelligence, mindset, behavior change, supplementation, nutrition, health, wellness, fitness, and technology that empower you with actionable steps for your wellness journey.
After struggling with anxiety, depression, and weight gain in adolescence, in 2004 Josh let go of over 75 pounds and transformed his life by becoming a health and fitness professional that would coach over 12,000 sessions and evolve into one of the top wellness influencers on iTunes.
Deeper topics include: Physical intelligence, emotional intelligence, behavior change, wellness, nutrition, behavioral psychology, habits, mindset, fitness, health, strength training, organic supplementation, biohacking, body transformation, psychedelics, digital health, quantified self, mHealth, wellness technology and more.